Hu Shuli,
Editor in Chief of Caixin Media, stressed that in China in the past years
successful economic growth of an annual average of 10,7 percent had allowed
some 500 million Chinese to move from poverty to middle class society. But
still there was a gap between urban and rural development as well as geographic
disparity. To bridge this gap she advocated the principle of “inclusive
growth”, which to her mind would mean equal access to social services for the
public based on public spending through local administrations instead of
centralized authorities.

Wang Liwei
from the social organization Charitarian listed the most urgent fields of
action in rural China to work on: the education gap, the health gap, the rights
gap, and with respect to education in particular, he proposed to better
teach the school teachers in the rural areas and increase their salaries as a
necessary measure to raise education standards.

Wu Changhua, Director of Climate Group, made the audience aware of the fact that China had a energy and
ressource consumption that was 3-4 times higher than that of the EU countries.
So China would have to become more efficient, decentralize decision-making and
move to a mixed instead of a state owned economy to follow the path to
sustainable and quality growth without depleting its natural resources.